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men amongst them, tl.e sons of managers, perhaps, who before the co mbination laws were repealed might have been bound by onAs, but if so it was unknown to him. With respect to the average amount of wajes, it was aLout 18s. a week, in some instances it might amount to 305., or 355. but these ex ptions were very few, the average being 18s., and many persons not receiving more than 10s. or 12s. a-week, labour in= for twelve hours a-day, in an atmosphere of 84 degrees. In reply to another question which had been asked him, he would reply, that the man who shot Graham wes rot, to his knowledge, a member of the Association. Mr. CAMPBFLL (Secretary of the Central Trades' Corn- w i tet ) sail—Workmen of the City of London, it is necessary that 3ou should be informed of the real situation of these peer men, who have been branded by the public press with crimes of the blackest character.—( Hear, bear.) It is re e:.ssary that those charges should be investigated, in order that the energies of the working classes of the United King dom may be roused to vindicate their characters from tl e foul charges that have been made against them. The cot ton-spinners of G:a.gow are rot the only persons interested, but all tie trades of the United Kingdom.—( Hear, hear.) The columns of the public press have not only accused the Association with the crime of murder, but actually announced that the murderers had been arrested, and that the blocd been respcialsd to, and he was satisfied they would not relax in their energies. The speaker then proceeded to inveigh, in terms of biter indignation, against the mode in which the re cent trial had been coaductcd, and cited with great effect the words of Shelley— " Justice sits spilling at the sale of truth !" In allusion to the judicial feature of the proceedings, he said if they would substitute the word " judge" for ''priest," the poet's language would not he obsolete for want of applica tion—namely, The judge requires gold To i ay the pangs of outraged conscience." After some further observations, the resolutions were moved err masse. Mr. TONIF.Y, smith, experienced sensations both of plea sure and pain, on the present occasion—pleasure in witnessing the zeal and fervour with which the cause of the victims of oppression was taken up, and ►:ain to think that individuals in the shape of men could be guilty of atrocities at which human nature revolts. After the middle class had been, to the ex clusion of the working people, invested with electo-al privileges, the first movement on the part of the Whigs was to starve the men, women, and children of Derby. He need not allude to that perversion of the law into an instrument of oppression, by which the honest Dorchester unionists were doomed to associate with felons, whose guilt was of the deepest die. The cry formerly was—" Agitate, agitate, agi tate !" Now, when a purpose is gainee, the cry is—" Exter minate, exterminate, exterminate !"—( Cheers.) Lord Grey, when about to secede from office, said he bad put down Trades' Associations. Let me tell the Whigs, the sham patriots in their tail, and the great Agitator himself, that nothing but the suspension of the habeas corpus Act shall extinguish my zsal, or the zeal of the trade to which I belong. The speaker then dwelt forc'hly on the obligation of all the trades to use every effort for the rescue of the persecuted cotton-spinners, who, he was persuaded, were innocent. Their claim cn sympathy was, that they now suffired for their fidelity to the principles by which they pledged themselves to abide, when they joined the Cctton,apinners' Association.—(Great cheering.) Mr. Tomey concluded by seconding the resolutions. Mr, FEARGUS O'CONNOR presented himself amidst loud cheers. He said, I stand before you upon my privilege—l stand before you as the first man who took up the case o the cotton-spinners, at a time when their friends suspected them. I edited the Glasgow Libera or without fee or reward, when that journal opposed, or rather censured, the Glasgow cot ton• spinners. I wrote two letters in their defence, and am happy that I was instrumental in making it their advocate.— ( Hear, hear.) I travelled a distance of 2,000 miles to attend both trials, and gave up my private business at a time when it was of importance to me. I, therefore, think that lam un der no compliment to any man for being allowed to address you this night.—( Hear, hear. ) Many attempts have been made to cast me aside ; but here I stand before you, men of England, and ask you where are those professors of universal suffrage ?—( Hear, bear.) Where are those advocates of the ballot ?—( Hear, hear.) In ten or twenty years, when these unfortunate men have sunk into their graves, arid when it shall be necessary to support a tottering Ministry, then we may get some of them to take the chair.—( Hear, hear.) The elo quent speaker here reviewed the treatment which the Glas gow cotton spinners bad received, and concluded a most stir ring address by calling on the Trades to join heart and soul in rescuing the poor men from the horrors of transportation. Mr. VINCENT (Compositor) came forward, to move that the petition, which is subjoined, be adopted by the meeting, and expressed his disinclination to speak, in consequence of the advanced hour of the night (it being now nearly twelve o'clock), but the meeting insisted on hearing him. The speaker observed—l can only subscribe my voice in promulga tion of the innocence of the cotton-spinners ; and I came to the conviction that they were treated with injustice, on reading the partial evidence brought forward by the prosecution. The conviction of the men in question is, however, but one feature in the great conspiracy ready to burst over the heads of the working classes. Be assured, my friends, Government will soon teach you what you have to do with politics. Daniel O'Connell, in Dublin, has lately proved himself the active enemy of the working people ; and the Whigs, to whose service he is devoted, have been, from their persecution of the Dorchester Unionists down to their coercion of the Canadians, the oppressors of the people.—( Loud cheers.) I would im press on your minds one important consideration: you ought now to be familiar enough with the hostile intentions of Whigs and Tories, who arc more of selfish partisans than dis interested patriots, and to confide only in your own resources. The people are not represented. The House of Commons is the strong hold of our enemies—a trades' union in itself—a House which exuludes the people from the privileges of the Constitution, and sanctions that iniquitous tyranny which does not allow the working classes, who are taxed and participate largely in sustaining the burdens of the State, to have any con troul over the Legislature that imposes such taxes.—( Cheers. ) Universal Suffrage is the only remedy for the correction of evil and the humiliation of tyranny.—(Repeated c h eers. ) If Universal Suffrage were once conceded, men familiar with our wants and wishes—men with brains in their heads not in their pockets, would, by giving a faithful expression to the public feeling, soon supersede the necessity of trade associa tions. We want such men in the House of Commons. Landed Aristocrats and Capitalists have no sympathy with us, simply, because they have an intersst in cpprefsion. We have nothing whatever to expect from Whig or Tory, two fne tions alike tenacious of place and squanderers of the public m oney.—(Cheers.) We should, as I said before, instead of reposing confidence in any party, rely on ourselves—commune with each other on our common interests—establish in every locality mutual instruction societies—and asssert the supre macy of intellect over passion, by abstaining from intoxicating draughts, which demoralise and debase human nature.—(lm mense cheering.) We should, my friends, qualify our elves :'or moral warfare, by abandoning all stupid frivolities—we should know our value—that the inherent capacity of the working classes to create wealth gives them a title to some degree of control over the acts of the Legislature. In a word, we should know our rights and knowing, be resolved to main tain them.—( Cheers. ) The speaker invoked the working classes—the men who heard him then, to come forward on the present occasion, and give their enemies substantial proof of their resolution to struggle for their rights, by manifesting their sympathy with the convicted Cotton-spinners. Every honest artisan should recognise in the persecution of the Cotton-spin ners, an injury inflicted on the whole operative community.— ( Loud cheering.) In consequence of the lateness of the hour, the speaker concluded abruptly, by moving the adoption of the petition. Mr. SHARP seconded the petition. The petition to the Lords to be presented by Lord Brougham—that to the Commons by Mr. Wakley, to whom a vote of thanks was unanimously passed. A vote of thanks was also passed with great enthusiasm to the Delegates, for their lucid and instructive statements. After the usual compliments to the Chairman, the meeting dissolved at one o'cicck this morning. money would be shortly divided among the officers o public justice.—( Laughter.) The prejudice originated by the press had such an effect on the public mind, that five of the jurymen informed the counsel for the defence that they could not sit as jurors on the trial of the accused cotton spinners, in consequence of the feeling created in their minds aeainst them by the statements that had been daily circu lated, and which had so biassed their judgments that they could rot discharge their duties with impartiality.—( Hest., hear.) Lords Medwin and Cockburn complimented the Sheriff of Lanark for having found out the conspiracy, and the Sheriff in reply said he was delighted that a conspiracy of twenty years' standing had been brought to light, and which, consisting- of 100,000 persons, had paralyzed the arm of the law.—( Laughter.) The whole press, with two ch• three honourable exceptions—the Northern Star, the 'Northern Liberal, and the Liberator of Glasgow, re-echoed the asser tions made by the Sheriff. In consequence of so serious a charge the Association called a meeting for the following Monday, at which they invited Sheriff Allison to attend, in order that he might prove the charges he had made against that body.—(Hear, hear.) This functionary wrote a letter, stating that his office prevented him vindicating any act of his in his official capacity, and declining to retract the general assertion made by Oh, oh.) There are ao moresthan 800 cotton-spinners, and he should be glad to know what became of the hundred thousand whom he said a ere con: Airing against the life and property of their fellow-men.— (Hear, hear.) He could not avoid referring to the language of Mr. Millar, Captain of Police, when he spoke of the moral courage of the men who had arrested the conspirators.—" Oh," says 1 c, " I cannot forget the moral courage of my men when they entered the house of the conspirators, every room of which was filled with assassins, whilst the streets were crowded with hundreds of the same faction."—( Loud laughter.) Of what number did this band of conspirators consist ? Of thir teen members of the Association, who were sitting together after paying only Is. to each man who had been out of emrloy, and giving a small portion of meal for his week's support. True, those men had notice that they would be arrested, and so conscious were they of their innocence, that they waited the arrival of the officers, who arrested them at ten o'clock at night, and committed them to the dark and cold cells of Bridewell, where they were left without light or heat until 11 o'clock the next niorning.—(Shame, shame.) When the keeper was spoken to for not having treated them more mildly, he said, " What could I do for men who were deli vered to my charge as conspirators, assassins, and murderers?" One member of the Association hearing that he had been ac ccaed with murder, called on the Fiscal , and offered to submit himself; but days elapsed before he was taken in charge, when h e we e sent to gaol for seven weeks ; at the expiration of which time he was allowed to go in search of such bail as he could procure for his appearance. How was it possible for them to expect justice when the witnesses for the prosecution not only received asstsrarices of protection from the prosecuting Counsel, but were told h," the Judges to speak out with ccnti dence, as they would be protected by the strong arm of the law. Next the burning of Hussey's Mill was charged against them. The man (Nl•Kinnon) whose duty it was to open toe factory in the mornings stated that he found in the wareroom two yards of rope-yarn, with wrappers of brown paper introduced between each, and which had been saturated in nitrous inflammable matter. These ropes, which were analogous to coil-rope, were found opposite a small glass window, but not burning, only a little consumed.—( Oh, oh.) When examined as to their not being on the premises when he closed them at night, he never answered the question, but, throwing out his arms. and looking wildly round, with a yell fell fainting to the ground. —( A thrill of horror here pervaded the meeting.) The occur rence put the whole Court and Judge in a great fright ; in vain medical assistance was brought in • be only recovered from one fit to faint into another.--( Oh, oh.) His evidence could not be given. What did the public press say of that? Why, that he had been seized with an epileptic fit, to which he was subject. A more barefaced falsehood never was advanced, as he always had enjoyed strong robust health, and was never subject to fits. (Hear.) The evidence of Dr. Corkindale went to prove that the ropes could not but have burst out in a fit.me, if left lighted, of so cembils,ible a nature was the matter with which they were impregnated. Besides, from the dis tance of the window from the ground being thirteen or four teen feet, it was impossible that it could have been thrown from the outside.—( Hear.) The public press had exerted its utmost to keep out of view all the exculpatory evidence. It maj be asked, why did they not secure an impartial rt port ? They attempted it by engaging Mr. M'Gregor at two guineas per day, besides an additional sum of one shilling per each sheet. This entaried on them a ccst of 1501. Mr. M'Gree•or was to have given eads day's evidence, so that it could 'be published on the following day ; but on the close of the trial he had not sup.died a portion to the party who had engaged him. He did not act so to the Lord-Advocate and the So licitor-General, both of whom he supplied with minutes of the evidence, and the whole proceedings.—(Shame') On the prisoners perusing what was expected to be the moat im partial account of the trial, they all signed a letter, stating that it was full of mistakes, inaccuracies as to dates and statistics, and abounded with ridiculous conclusions ;" and such as would almost justify them to say that it was made out for bad purposes.—(Hear.) Hackett had been charged wilt raising the sum 11,881/. 6s. 6d. in 1837, to forward the ob jects of a secret association, and the association was accused with spcn&ug that amount in one year ; whereas, the amount was the gross sum raised from 1819 to 1837, and was laid out for the follow,.ttg purposes :-9991. 10s. were advanced to the Johnstown cotton:. spinners, to support men struggling for their just rights.—( Hear, hear.) 7131. 14s. were advanced to the operative cotton-spinnces of England for the same pur poses. 3601. for public proceeor;s c srs for the repeal of combi nation laws ; and a similar sum was exrended on the de putation that attended the Parliamentary investigation. 7211. were laid out in endeavouring to 01,!etin a Bill for the reduction of the time of labour in the heated atmosphere of the factories ; 4,375/. were expended on emigration ; by which the surplus hands who were willing to leave their native land, in search of labour, were furnished with the means of so doing. Each man on his departure was supplied with 101. in money, for which they were to give a bill as guarantee against hi 3 either returning within three years or working within certain precincts.— Hear, hear.) This was headed persecution instead of pm secution-monev, which was the mere clerical error of an aged Secretary, and of this error the Crown availed itself. 100/ were used during the Reform Bill in purchasing splendid flags, &c , in the vain hopes that the Bill would better the condition of the working-classes, but all these anticipations went to tl e ea inds.—( Hear, hear.) 9781. was expended by the trades in establishing an independent newspaper, that would redress their wrong s and assert their rights—(he ar , hear)—and 180/. Was Landed the cabinet-makers, 340/. the block printers. 3 024/. the Staffordshire potters. Thus was that sum disposed of, and lie was confident that there was not a tradesman in the United Kingdom who would not follow the example of the Glasgow Cotton-spinners in a similar way.—( Hear, hear. ) The money legally collected was disposed of in acts of charity and philanthrophy.—(flear, hear, hear.) The un fortunate men who were now under the sentence of seven years' transportation are undeserving that punishment, and as ould not have been subjected to were they Englishmen, as proved in the case of the men in Manchester, who though con victed of an assault, were only sentenced to nine months' imprisonment—(Hear)—and another, a gamekeeper in Glas gow, was only confined for killing a poacher, who had not immediately left the lands on his bidding.—(" Oh, oh," and cries of " Shame.") They should petition not only the Commons' House, but the House of Lords also ; and froin an interview he bad had with a Noble Lord he could t 11 them that there was a Nobleman in that House who would present their petition in favour of their fellow-tradesmen now in the Hulks on the Thames, and support with all his powers its prayer.—( Cheers.) Lord Henry Brougham we; the Peer who will act that noble part.—(Loud and continued eheere.) M r. CUTTIBEIITSON, a delegate from the Cabinet-makers' Association of Glasgow, seid that the attack made on the Association was a firebrand thrown amongst the Trades by d e signing, avaricious capitalists. —( Hear, hear. ) The Trades wi 11 appear before the public as soon as false prejudice vanishes, like gold which is more refined by the furnace.— ( Hear, hear.) The defence cost the Association 3,000/., towards which they had only 1,500/., of which 500/. was an £nnonymcus contribution.—( Cheers.) le reply to a question, he said that Hacket had left six h e lple s e children, the eldest only ten years of age; Gibbs three helpless children ; and Hunter, one infant. Mr. NoeltaN rcse for the purpose of moving the adoption of the re .olutioez, which he read es follows : " That the Trades heard, with extreme regret, the late proceedings against the men now under sentence of transpor tation, and who were unjustly condemned for crimes which Were never sanctioned by them. and that they believed that charges o f twenty years' standing were brought against the Association to prejudice the case of the men on their trial. " That whilst the'v challenge Parliamentary inquiry into the proceedings of the Ola;::,row Association, they do not recog nise the right of Parliament to interfere in the regulation of the workine-classca, as Parliament does not represent them, but, on the contrary, the opulent classes only. " That a petition be prepared and submitted to both Houses of Porliam ent , praying a mitigation of the se ntence passed against she Glasgow co tt on -spieners." -- (c heers.) He then observed, that about four months shine an appeal was made on behalf of the Cottcn-quinners• Let no man re gret the result of their exertions, or co,:!Lidor them abortive; for, if not crowned with success, they had the :_'onsolation of reflecting that they had done their duty, and, in all prohesility, through their exertions, b a d succeeded hi rescuing the men now in the hulks from an ignominious death on the scaffold, He was proud that the appeal to the London tradesmen had Labour being, as is universally admitted, the bass of wealth, everything which affects its operation must necessarily all excite the gravest attention of all communities capable of ap preciating the paramount influence which its judicious regula- Con must ever exercise on the General welfare and prosperity. There can be no greater mistae than to suppose that em ployers, by exacting from the workmen the hardest terms, which will merely leave to the latter the means of existence, or that workmen, by enforcing from the employers terms beyond what the profits will afford, can ever secure to them selves any permanent advantage. They may, it is true, derive temporary benefit from such extortion ; but on whichever side the encroachment may occur, the aggressor must be ulti mately involved in the ruin of his victim, and the stranger will reap his harvest midst the sufferings of both. In all social and commercial relations retributive justi"e is ever active in its manifestations. If the employer grinds down the workman to the minimum of wages and the maximum of labour, he may no doubt for a time realise larger returns than with a fair average of labour and remuneration, but he is certain to meet with a reaction from competition, and the moral and physical deteri oration of the labouring classes, which will far more than counterbalance his temporary gains. Ott the other side, if workmen will extort from their employers wages beyond what the profits of the trade will afford, capital will be directed into other channels, foreign competition and manufacture will push native labour from the market, and the artisan, in driving his employer into the Gazette, will force himself upon the parish. Thus, no trade can ever prosper wherein the interests of the employer and the artisan are not re ciprocal. In connection with this subject w , ll be found in this d ty's Ackert . se• a v-ry :nteiesting detail of facts connec:ed a it! the recent trial of the Glasgow Cotton-spinners, given by the delegates of their Association, at a meeting held last night at the Mechanics' Institution, Southampton buildings, Holborn. The statements made at this meet ing place the subject of the combination in a light very far diff rent front what appeared in the reports of the late prosecution. Without venturing a commentary on a subject of such extreme delicacy, we direct the earnest at tention of our readers to the statements of the Glasgow Delegates, which, both on direct and presumptive evidence, make out a most exculpatory case in favour of the men now under sentence of transportation. We have not space to pursue the subject at present, but would most impressively urge upon masters and men the necessity of a mutually good understanding, and the folly of continuing a course of hostility which, under the most favourable results, must prove in jurious to both parties.--11foraing Advertiser. A man, named Rheiner, employed in keeping in re pair the road over the Splugen, has trained some dogs to search for and discover travellers in distress or caught in the snow. Last week one of these sagacious unimals returned in the night from his watch, and conducted his master to a spot where he had found a man senseless from the cold. The un fortunate traveller was carried to a house, where means of re suscitation were employed with success. and the next morning he was able to continue Lis Journey. —Galignani's 'll - essevyer A Belgian journal states that a vOl.lng (girl, not more than twenty years of age, who about five Years ago wished to marry in opposition to her parents, who were farmers at fleyst-op-Denberg, had been confined ever since by them in a cellar, and fed only upon bread and water. She was at last released from her horrible durance by the burgomaster of the Commune, but being unable to support her sudden exposure to the open air, died in half an hour aftee her liberetion. Ht r father, mother, Itud uncle were arrested, and taken to tho pri son of Mechlin. Yesterday morning the body of a newly-born infant, wrapped up in a piece of green baize, was found under an arch way on the Wcodbridge estate, It was . quite dead, and w4s taken to the workhouse for a CoronErf:, inquest. The above A,pot has been for a considerable time the retwt or thieves, vagrants, 88d Shp worst of characters, and has long been corn, d of as a nui plained ~a44 ; .e, sever a l :loadchildren h ave at va• y tip as times boen found on OW 44. We apt:, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1838. UNITED STATES' NEUTRALITY. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, information having been received of a dangerous excitement on the northern frontier of the United States, in ccnseque• ee of the civil war begun in Canada, and instruc tions having been given to the United States officers on that frontier, and applications having been made to the Governors of the adjoining States to prevent any unlawful interference on the pact of our citizens in the contest unfortunately corn menced in the British Provinces : additional information has just been received, that. notwithstanding the Proclamations of the Governors of the States of New York and Vtrrnont, ex ' horting their citizens to refrain from any unlawful acts within the territory of the United States ; and, notvvithstandin , the presence of the civil officers of the United States, who, by my directions, have visited the scenes of commotion with the view of impressing the citizens with a props r sense of tin ii duty, the excitement, instead of being appeased, is every day increasing in degree—that arms and munitions of war, and other supplies, have been procured by the insurgents in the United States—that a military force, consisting, in part at least, of citizens of the United States, had been actually organized, and congregated at Navy Island, and were still in arms under the command of a citizen of the United States, and that they were constantly receiving accessions and aid : Now, therefore, to the end that the authority of the laws may he maintained, and the faith of treaties observed, I Martin Van Buren, do most earnestly exhort all citizens of the 'United States who have thus violated their duties, to return peaceably to their resp , .ctive homes ; and I hereby warn them, that any persons who shall compromise the neutrality of this Government by interfering in an unlawful manner with the offairs of the neighbouring British Provinces, will render themselves liable to arrest and punishment under the laws of the United States, whit h will be rigidly enforced ; and also, that they will receive no aid or countenance from theiy Government into whatever difficulties they may be thrown by the violation of tLe laws of their country, and of the territory of a neighbouring and friendly nation. [ Given under my hand at the city of Washington, the sth day ' of January, A.D. l 838, and the sixty second of the inde pendence of the United States. M. VAN BUREN. By the President : JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State. MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. IN SENATE, JAN. 5. DISTURBANCES ON THE NORTHERN FRONTIER. The Clair communicated the following Message from the President of the United Statcs, on the subject of the war in Canada : To the Senate and House of Reprosentatives of the United States : Recent experience on the southern boundary of the United Stales, and the events now daily occurring on our northern frontier, have abundantly shown that the existing laws are in sufficient to guard against hostile invasion, from the United States, of the territory of friendly and neighbouring nations. The laws in force provide sufficient penalties for the punish ment of such offences, after they have been committed, and provided the parties can be found ; but the Executive is powerless in many cases to prevent the commission of them, even when in possession of ample evidence of an intention on the part of evil-disposed persons to violate our laws. Your attention is called to this defect in our legislation. It is apparent that the Executive ought to be clothed with ade quate power effectually to restrain all persous within our juris diction from the commission of acts of this character. They tend to disturb the peace of the country, and inevitably involve the Government in perplexing controversies with foreign powers. I recommend a careful revision of all the laws now in force, and such additional enactments as may be necessary to vest in the Executive full power to prevent injuries being inflicted upon neighbouring nations by the unauthorized and unlawful acts of citizens of the United States, or of other per sons who may be within our jurisdiction, and subject to our controul. In illustration of these views, and to show the necessity of an early action on the part of Congress, I submit herewith a copy of a letter received from the Marshal of the Northern District of New York, who had been directed to repair to the frontier, and take all authorized measures to secure the faith ful execution of existing laws. M. VAN BUREN. Washington, Jan. 5, 1838. The Message, with the accompanying papers, having been read by the Secretary— Mr. CLAY rose to express his full conviction of the neces sity of some early action on this important subject. No spectacle could be more revolting to the feelings of a free people, than a war either among themselves or with another country. The views of the Executive met his highest appro bation, but it was the duty of Congress to examine, and, if the existing laws were not adequate to prevent the alleged interference of our citizens, others should be forthwith en acted for the full accomplishment of an object so desirable. If the people of this country choose to renounce their citizen ship, it was perhaps allowable ; but any interference with a rebellion in a country with which we were at peace, should meet the earliest attention of our Government. We might, as citizens, freely, and in any msnner we thought proper, ex press our sympathies with either belligerent party, but in no case lend them aid or countenance. He did not c ,r4der he had any right to express an opinion relative to the course of the Canadians. They might be right, or they might be wrong in the course they were pursuing. It was the duty of every citizen to remain quiet, nor even express opinions, till such expressions had been made by the Government. He hoped that to whatever Com ' mittee the subject might be referred, they would examine whether or not the action of our citizens had not been li- mited to some disputed ten itory, or whether arms, munitions of war, or supplies had been furnished, and which, if proved such conduct roust be viewed by Government as in the highest degree reprehensible. Mr. CALHoUN had felt from the beginning of the troubles in Canasta, the greatest anxiety, and a fear that it might re sult in difficulties to this country. He hoped the existing laws, prohibiting the interference of our citizens, would be rigidly enforced ; and if, on examination, they should be found insufficient to meet the exigencies of the case, that new ones would be speedily enacted. He woull set forth in the strong est light the terrible consequeeces of a war with Great Bri tain at the present time. He urged, in the most emphatic manner, the necessity of clothing the Executive with all need ful additional power, if the laws in fence in this respect were too limited. Mr. NORVELL said that no portion of the people of the United States were more deeply interested in ties subject than the in habitants of the State which he had the honour, in part, to represent. Between a part of that State, and the Upper Province of Canada, there was a river, the dividing line, only of one mile wide. The peace of our citizens in that quarter was daily and hourly exposed to violation in the progress of this civil war in the aejacent Province. Pen ons b , :longing to both of the parties in this foreign contest would seek refuge , sympathy, and aid from our people, among whom there m i ght be individuals disposed to jeopard the neutrality and peac e of the country, in their anxiety to strengthen the cause which they espoused. It was exceedingly desirable that this should, f possible, be prevented. Our own riehts and berties wore too precious to be jeoparded in those premature and badly digested civil broils between different portions of the same foreign people. But the laws were inadequate to the object, and ought to be revised and made stronger. Mr. Davis must heartily concurred with the sentiments of the Senators who had preceded him, and also in the views of the Executive, on this momentous subject. Congress, he considered, were under the most sacred obligations to pre• serve the present pacific relations between ourselves and foreign powers. It was a duty we owed to ourselves and to other na tions, to preserve to the utmost, obedience to the treaties existing, and to enforce rigidly their observance on the part of our citizens with such nations, while with them we continue at peace. It seemed to hint there had been too long manifested by our citizens a disposition to interfere with the affairs of our neighbours of the frontiers; and it would appear that the ef forts of those whose duty it was to enforce the law s, had urged on and encouraged such measw es, rather than labouring to suppress them. Some definite and decisive mea,ures had now become necessary, in order effectually to preserve our good faith and character a; a nation. If the Executive Pocru was not strong enough, by all moans enlarge it, by enacting new laws on the subject. Of all evils that could now befall this nation, the most deplorable in its effects would be a war with Breat Britain. We all well know the strength and power of that country, and equally well we know that our progress, im provement, and success, is but a growing weakness. After s ,me remarks by Mr. Renton in favour of the motion to cornme, the documents were referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. NORTHERN FRONTIER. A message, in writ'ng, was received from the President of the United States, by the hands of his private Secretary, A. Van Buren, Esq. The Message, and accompanying letter, having been read, were, on motion of Mr. Howard, referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Fillmore then asked leave , to offer the following reso lution : And be it further resolved, that the President be requested to communicate to this House any information in his possession of acts endangering the amicable relations between this Go vernment and that of Great Britain, either by the subjects of Great Britain, or by our own citizens on the Canadian fron tier, and what measures have been adopted by the Executive to preserve our neutrality with said kingdom, or repel invasion from a f o reign country, and that he furnish the information callud for by Bach of these res,Autions in separate communi cations. Mr. [lnward thought the resolution not necessary after the Message just read. Mr. Fillmore said be should press it, but withdrew it at that time to give an opportunity to the Committees to report. Mr. Carnbreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a Bill making appropriations for the. suppressi on o f Indian hostilities for the 3 ear I 838. The resolution of Mr. Howard coming up in order, Mr. Adams moved his amendment as follows :—And be it further resolved, that he be also requested to communicate copies of ents and officers o f M ex i co 41 1 instructions to the officers of the Government of the United states, and 411 correspondence with them , wi th the Governors of the State, and with the CoVernlll and Great Britain, concerning the preserv4iPn pf the neutm lity of the United States, in the civil wars and insurrections in Mexico, and in any of the British provinces north of the United States, since the year 162 fir 44, particularly of a let- Lei from the President of the United States to the 4o p rptary of the terriimiy Rf Arkansas, datc4 on pr about the Oth or L)e cpmber, 1830, • Mr. Flimore then moved his resolution as Riven above. On these distinct propositions a long deba►e ensued, in which Messrs Hamer, Adams, Filimor, Howard, Sibley, Cilley, Patton, Bronson, Smith, and Cushing participated, after which, The amendments of Messrs. Fillmore and Adams were-se verally agreed to, and the question recurring on the original resolution as amended. From the Washington Correspondent of the New York Daily Express.) WASHINGTON, JAN. 6. The affairs of Canada arc awakening an interest here, second only to that aroused all along the frontiers of New York and Canada. Men are now enlisting their feelings and sympathies eit'ier upon the one side or the other. The Canadian French and the Canadian English— Patriots and Royalists—find both warm friends and warm v . ndicators among not merely the citizens of Washington, but among members of Congress and the officers of the General Government. Mr. Fox, the British Minister, as I learn, up to yesterday morning, when the news of murdering of Americans and the destruction of American property upon American ground, by British soldiers, first reached the city, was loud in his expres sions of complaint of a violation of neutrality on the part of the frontier citizens. The story, however, of demanding his passport was all moonshine. The President andthe Secretary of State have gore as far as the law gave them power to go, in demanding the strictest neutrality, and now that the laws of the land allow them to go no further, they call upon Con gress to revise the existing laws, inasmuch as the President in his message says, they are " insufficient, powerless, and shotAl therefore be revised, with additional enactments," Sz.c. The British Min'ster knows all this, and knows, as I be lieve, that the Government, in the affairs of Canada, whatever it may have done in the affairs of Mexico, is more willing to suffer wrong than to do wrong. The story then of demanding passports is preposterous. The United States are the proper complainants--the United States, whose north-eastern territory, in spite of pledge, faith, right, and everything else, has been wantonly and unjus tifiably occupied by British soldiers from New Brunswick. So long as the British, unmolested, can march over our territory--so long as British soldiers can leave the head quarters of the British army to attack American citizens — not American soldiers—at midnight, and destroy American property under the cover of darkness, so long I imagine the British Minister will be content to remain in the Ur.ited States without demanding his passports. The Americans, not the British, are now to call for redress. We have violated no law—mode no attack—approved of no lack of the observ ances of the strictest neutrality—disapproved of all improper expressions of feeling ; in short, done all the law allowed us to do, and are now about to clothe the Executive with new powers to enforce neutrality. We have done both through the General and States' Governments, all that we had the power to do, and it is now time that Great Britain should meet the United States half way in the observance of neutrality. Such, at least is the opinion of the many here ; for the many here, as I believe everywhere else, when well informed of Canadian matters, are in favour of the Patriots of Canada. At least the many wish them well, and sympathise with them, and will re joice at their success. None, however, would violate, or aid in :the violation of a single requisition demanded upon the ground of neutrality. As it was said in the . House of Repre sentatives, during the discussion of yesterday—" We will speak—we must think—and we cannot but sympathise—still we are for the strictest observance both of the letter and spirit of the law." Mr. Cushing thought, and upon just grounds, that there was no danger of a conflict with Great Britain. " England," said he, " holds her North American colonies by a thread, and a war with us severs that thread for ever and ever. She will not be the aggressor." The discussion of yesterday in the House, as you will observe, gave rise to a strong expression of opinion in regard to the north-eastern boundary. The members from Maine will take this occasion to demand a settlement at the hands of the Government. ES B. FROM THE FRONTIER. The northern mail, which failed beyond Utica on Satur day, did not arrive here till after 10 o'clock on Sunday night. The rumour of a successful battle on the part of the Navy Islanders had thrown our city into a great degree of excite ment, which continued all day Sunday, and was not quieted till the northern mail arrived and settled the doubt. REBEL PROCLAMATION. ( From the New Yorh Weekly Herald, of the 6th of January.) We annex Mr. Mackenzie's proclamation to the Queen's subjects of Upper Canada, which has not yet been published in any of the city papers :--; PROCLAMATION. HY WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE, Chairman pro tem. of tire Provisional Government of the State of Upper Canada. Inhabitants of Upper Canada !—For nearly fifty years has our country languished under the blighting influence of mili tary despots, strangers from Europe, ruling us, not according to laws of our choice, but by the capricious dictates of their power. They have taxed us at their pleasure, robbed our ex chequer,. and carried off the proceeds to other lands— they have bribed and corrupted Ministers of the Gos pel, with, the wealth raised by our industry—they have in place of religious liberty, given rectories and clergy reserves to a foreign priesthood, with spiritual power dangerous to our peace as a people—they have bestowed millions of our lands on a company of Europeans for a nomi nal consideration, and left them to fleece and impoverish our country—they have spurned our petitions, involved us in their wars, excited feelings of national and sectional animosity, in counties, townships and neighbourhoods, and ruled us as Ire land has been ruled, to the advantage of persons in other lands, and to the prostration of our energies as a people We are wearied of these oppressions, and ri solved to throw off the yoke. Rise Canadians, rise as one man and the glori ous object of our wishes is accomplished. Our intentions have been clearly stated to the world, in the Declaration of Independence, adopted at Toronto on the 31st of July last, printed in the Constitution, Correspowlent and Advocate, and the Liberal, which important paper was drawn up by Dr. John Rolph and myself, signed by the Central Com mittee, received the sanction of a large majority of the people of the Province, west of Port Hope and Cobourg, and is well known to be in accordance with the feelings and sentiments of nine-tenths of the people of this State. We have planted the standard of liberty in Canada, for the attainment of the following objects:— Perpetual Peace, founded on a Government of Equal Rights to all, secured by a written Constitution, sanctioned by yourselves in a Convention to be called as early as circum stances will permit. Civil and Religious Liberty, in its fullest extent, that in all laws made, or to be made, every person be bound alike— neither shall any tenure, estate, charter, birth or place, confer any exemption from the ordinary course of legal proceedings and responsibilities whereunto others are subjected. The abolition of hereditary honours, of the laws of entail and primogeniture, and of hosts of pensioners who devour our substance. A Legislature composed of a Senate and Assembly chosen by the people. An Executive to be composed of a Governor and other officers elected by the public voice. A Judiciary to be chosen by the Governor and Senate, and composed of the most learned, honourable, and trustworthy of our citizens. The laws to be rendered cheap and expeditious. A Free Trial by Jury—Sheriffs chosen by you, and not to hold office, as now, at the pleasure of our tyrants.—The Freedom of the Press. Alas for it, now ! The free presses n the Canadas are trampled down by the hand of arbitrary power. The Vote by Ballot —free and peaceful township elections. The people to elect their Court of Request, Commissioners and Justices of the Peace—and also their militia officers, in all cases whatsoever. Freedom of trade--every man to be allowed to buy at the cheapest market, and sell at the dearest. No man can be compelled to give military service unless it Ivs his choice. Ample funds to be received from the vast resources of our country to secure the blessings of education to every citizen. A frugal and economical government, in order that the peo ple may be prosperous and free from difficulty. Ali end for ever to the wearisome prayers, supplications and mockeries attendant upon our connexion with the lordlings of tire Colonial Office, Downing-street, London. The opening of the St. Lawrence to the trade of the world, so that the largest ships might pass up to Lake Superior, and the distribution of the wild leads of the country to the industry, skill and enterprise of worthy men of all nations. • For the attainment of these important objects, the Patriots no w in arms under the standard of liberty on Navy Island, U. C., have established a Provisional Government, of which the members are as follows (with two other distinguished gentlemen, whose names there are powerful reasons for with holding from public view), via.:-- WILLIAM L. NIACKENZIE, Chairman pro tern. Nelson Gorham Adam Graham, Samuel Lount, Jelin Hawk, Silas Fletcher, Jacob Rynall, Jesse Lloyd, William H. Doyle, Thomas Darling, A. G. W. G. Van Egmond. Charles Duncan, W e have procured the important aid of Gen. Van Rensse laer of Albany, of Col. Sutherland, Col. Van Egmond, and other military men of experience ; and the citizens of I3uffalo, to their eternal honour be it ever remembered, have pr ove d t o the endur:ng principles of the revolution of 1776, by sup- P lying us with provisions, money, arms, ammunition, artillery and volunteers, and vast numbers are floating to the standard under which, heaven willing, emancipation will be speedily tvon for a new and gallant nation, hitherto held in Egyptian thraldom by the aristocracy of England. Brave Canadians 1 Hasten to join that standard, and to make common cause with your fellow-citizens now in arms in the Home, London, and Western Districts. The opportunity of the absence of the hired red-coats of Europe is favourable to our emanciFtion. And short sighted is that man who does not now see that, although his apathy may protract the con test, it must end in independence, freedom from European thraldom for ever I Until independence is won, trade and industry will be dor nwit, houses and land will bp tinsteable, merchants will be embarrassed, and farmers and mechanics harrassed :and trou bled ; that point once gained, the prospect is fair and cheer ing, a long day of prosperity may be ours- The row4scs in 910 ti oNe 4s:toet . w'cre owing, first, to a ccident, wriio l re've4led Or design to our tyrants, and pre vented a surprise -:.and" secondly ; to the want of artillery. 3,500 men came and went, but we had not arms for one in twelve of them, nor could we procure them in the country. Three hundred acres of the rest of the public lands will be freely bestowed upon any volunteer who shall assist personally in bringing to a conclusion the glorious struggle in which our youthful country is now engaged against the enemies of freedom all the world over.. Ten millions of these lands, fair and fertile, will, I trust, be speedily at our disposal, with the other vast resources of a country more extensive and tieh in natural treasures than the United Kingdom. or Old France. Citizens I Soldiers of Liberty ! Friends of Equal Rights ! let no man suffer in his property, person, or state—let us pass through Canada, net to retaliate on others, for our estates ra vaged, our friends in dungeons, our homes burnt, our wheat and barns burnt, and our horses and cattle carried off; but let us show the praiseworthy example of protecting the houses. the homes, and the families of those who are in arms against their country, and against the liberties of this coreinent. Who will disclaim and. severely punish all aggression upon private property, and consider these as our enemies who may burn or destroy the smallest hut in Canada, unless necessity compel any one to do so in any cause for self-defence. Whereas, at a time when the King and Parliament of Groat Britain had solemnly egreed to redress the grievances of ti.e people, Sir Francis Bond Head was sent out to this country with promises of conciliation and justice—and whereas, the said Head had violated his oath of office as a gcvcrnor, trampled upon every vestige of our rights and privileges, bribed and corrupted our legislature, interfered with the freedom of elections, intimidated the freeholders, de clared our country not entitled to the blessings of British freedom, prostrated openly the right of trill by jury, placed in office the most obsequious, treacherous, and un worthy of our population—and sought to rule Upper Canada by the mere force of his arbitrary power, imprisoned Dr. Morrison, Mr. Parker, and many others of our most respected citizens, banishing in the highly respected speaker of the late House of Assembly, the Hon. Mr. Bidwell, and causing the expatriation of that universally beloved and well tried eminent patriot, Dr. John Rolph, because they had made common cause with our injured people, and setting a vast price on the head of several, as if they were guilty persons—for which crimes and misdemeanours he is deserving of being put upon his trial before the country—l do hereby offer a reward of five hundred pounds for his apprehension, so that he may be dealt with as may appertain to justice. In Lower Canada, Divine Providence has blessed the arms of the Sons of Liberty—a whole people are there manfully struggling for that freedom without which property is hut a phantom, and life scarce worth having a gift of. General Gi rardigat the head of 15,000 determined democrats. _ . The friends of freedom in Upper Canada have continued to act in strong and regular concert with Mr. Papineau and the Lower Canada Patriots ; alid it is a pleasing reflection that between us and the ocean, a population of 600,000 souls are now in arms resolved to be free The tidings that worthy patriots are in arms, is spreading through the Union, and the men who were oppressed in Eng land, Ireland, Scotland, and the continent are flocking to our standard. We must be successful. I had the honour to address nearly 3,000 of the citizens of Buffalo, two days ago, in the Theatre. The friendship and sympathy they expressed are honourable to the great and flourishing Republic. I am personally authorised to make known to you that from the moment that Sir Francis Head declined to state in writing the objects he had in view, in sending a flag of truce to our camp in Toronto, the message once declined, our esteemed fellow-citizen, Dr. John Rolph, openly announced his con currence in our measures, and now decide dl y approves of the stand we are taking in behalf of our beloved country, which will never more be his until it be free and independent. Canadians ! my confidence in you is as strong and power ful, in this our day cf trial and difficulty, as when many years ago, in the zeal and ardour of youth I appeared among you, the humble advocate of your rights and liberties. I need not remind you of the sufferings and persecutions I have endured for your sakes, the losses I hare sustained, the risks I have run. Had I ten lives I would cheerfully give them up to procure freedom to the country of my children, of my early and disinterested choice. Let us act together ; and warmed by the hope of success in a patriotic cause, be able to repeat in the language so often happily quoted by Ireland's champion, The nations are fallen and thou still art young, Thy sun is but rising when others have set, And the' slavery's cloud o'er thy morning bath hung, The full tide of Freedom shall beam round thee yet." Militia men of 1812 ! Will ye again rally round the stand ard of your tyrants ! I can scarce believe it possible. Upper Canada Loyalists, what has been the recompense of your long tried and devoted attachment to England's aristocracy? Ob loquy and contempt. Verily we have learnt in the school of experience, and are prepared to profit by the lessons of the past. Compare the great and flourishing nation of the United States with our divided and distracted land, and think what we also might have been, as brave, independent lords of the soil. Leave, then, Sir Francis Head's defence to the miserable serfs dependent on his bounty, and to the last hour of your lives the proud remem brance will be yours—" We also were among the deliverers of our country !" Navy Island, Dec. 13, 1837. THE ARMY. Table of Infantry Regiments serving in India, showing the year of going abroad, the probable year of return home, and period of Foreign Service, the present rate of relief being one Regiment per annum. ' Year of I'robable Year Length of Where Regiment. leaving (of Return to Foreign now England. England. Service. Serving. --- - Years. 45th 1819 1838 19 On passage 54th 1819 1839 20 Madras 16th 1819 1840 21 Bengal 6th 1821 1841 20 Bombay 55th 1821 1842 21 Madras 41st 1822 1843 21 Madras 49th 1822 1844 22 Bengal 13th 1822 1845 23 Bengal 44th 1822 1846 24 Bengal 3d 1823 1847 24 Bengal 40th 1824 1848 24 Bombay 2d 1825 1849 24 Bombay 31st 1825 1850 25 Bengal 57th 1825 1851 26 Madras 39th 1827 1852 '25 Madras 26th 1828 1853 25 Bengal 63d 1829 1854 25 Madras 62(1 1830 1855 25 Madras 17th 1830 1856 26 Bombay 9th 1832 1857 25 Bengal 4th 1832 1858 26 Madras N. B. In proof that only one regit relieved, the following arc the corps India since 1827 inclusive—viz., 87 (2d Battalion), 14th, 89th, 46th, 481 sage home. ment per annum has been which have returned from th, 30th, 47th, 59th, Ist th, 38th, and 45th, on pAs- UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS, &c. The Rev. Henry Manton, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Kirby Green, Lincolnshire. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The Rev. James Lloyd Wallace, M.A., of Trinity Col lege, Cambridge, to the Mastership of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, at Seven Oaks, Kent. —.-...- The Rev. Thomas Procter, to the Head Mastership of Sherburn Grammar School, vice the Rev. W. Hewson, M. A. , of St. John's College, Cambridge , promoted to the Herd Mastership of St. Peter's School, York. Mr. W. Beal, Foundation Sizar of Trinity College, Cam bridge, was, at a general meeting of the Committee and Pro prietors of the Devonport Classical and Mathematical School, elected to the Third Mastership in that institution, vacant by the promotion of the Rev. J. 0. Tancock, Al, A. ..- - The Rev. Joshua Finlinson, to the Living of Earl's Heaton, Yorkshire. The Rev. Helier Touzel, of Sidney Sussex College, Cam bridge, to the Rectory of St. Helier's, in the Island of Jersey, vacant by the death of the Rev. Corbet Hue, D. D. The Earl of Shannon having presented the Rev. John N. Lombard to the Living of Carrigaline, the Lord Bishop of Cork and Cloyne has appointed the Rev. Win. Hall, curate of Kinneigh, to succeed Mr. Lombard, in the parish of St. Nicholas. ENGLAND'S NAVAL HEitoEs.---With the single exception of Nelson, our naval heroes—the peculiar boast and glory of our country—have not hitherto been done justice to, as regards an adequate estimate and record of their public lives and services, and their personal characters and intellectual pre tensions. We are happy to learn that this complaint is about to he removed in a highly satisfactory and efficient manner, in the case of the great Earl St. Vincent unquestionably one of the most distinguished of all our naval heroes. Captain Brenton, so well known as the author of " The Naval History of Great Britain," has undertaken to give to the world the " Life and Correspondence" of his illustrious friend; and the extraordinary facilities enjoyed by this gentleman during the lifetime of the Earl (who gave to him, and to him alone, ac cess to all his private papers, &c., for this express purpose) afford every promise of a highly interesting and important na tional work. a 241 to 2,071, T R ADE OF NEW YoRK.---The number o f v esse l s which arrived at the port of N ew Y or k during last year amounted of whi c h 1, 343 were Amerioan, 31 Aus tßritish, 71 Bremer., 49 D an i s h, 49 D u t c h, 25 F reach, rin, 27 Hamburgh, 11 Meoklenburgh, 10 Norwegian, 54 Prussian, 2 Porwguese, 6 Uussian, 15 Spanish, 7t3 Swedish, 6 Sicilian, and 11 Sardinian. The number of passengers who arrived during the same period amountod to 54,975. Advices from Calcutta to the 18th inclusive, state that the visit of Colunel Burney to head-quarters, was to make arrangements for finally settling the dispute.. with the Burmese Government, which have been unroll overrated there, but not, we believe, with the Court of' Directors of the East India Cum. pang. The adviccs from India state that produce was very low, in consequence of the unfavi3urable accounts from England last spring ; the oyeTlanti mails of July and August nc.t, Thea having arrived. We regret to add that a private letter an nounces the death of Sir Benjamin Malgm; the Puisne Judge at Calcutta, and another letter tai of Mr. Stewart, of the f ain of Stewart, Alackillop, nod ' to., o f th a t City. Gent Anatole Demidoff, the 0- - t Russian no bleman, presented the Emperor short time since with Dela roche's celebrated pictv i rc, of l ane G rey. I t h as b een unfortu nately in the great tare Which , 4a; destroyed the winter pa' tee at St. Vetersburi.. WESTMINSTER REFORM SOCIETY. Stan:lard's Hotel, Charles-street, Covent-garden, Jan. 1838. The Committee of the Westminster Reform Society have now the pleasure to discharge the duty of reporting to the members at large an account of operations for the year 1867. In the early part of the year the Society commenced their labours by considering the important question of the Ballot, then about to be brought forward in the House of Commons by Mr. Grote. It was intended to have sup• ported that g,eetleman's motion by calling a public meeting at the Crown and Anchor Tavern ; but it was found im practable to hold such meeting upon the Ballot alone, un connected with an extension of the Suffrage, and Short Parliaments. This proves the expansion of public opinion for the simultaneous adoption of those important measures. It will be in the recollection of the members that in the beginning of March the first steps were taken (not by this Society) to unseat Sir Francis Burdett from the re presentation. The Society were not ind4erent observers of this operation ; they considered that it was necessary for the honour of this great city that the successor to Sir Francis I3urdett should be a Radical Reformer, untainted by an alliance with faction. They therefore laboured to this end ; but finding that it was intended to Whigize this seat of patriotism, they introduced Mr. Leader to the electors at the meeting in Covent-garden, on the 24th of April. The contest which immediately ensued with Sir Francis Burdett occupied the Society (including the settle ment of accounts), until the end of June, when the death of the late King occasioned another election, which fur nished ample and active employment to the Society for a considerable period. The result of this election restored Westminster to the elevated position which she formerly occupied. If there should he again found a dereliction of duty in the Representatives, the Electors of Westminster will rally round the principles advoetted by them for the last thirty years, by returning men who will act in conformity with the opinions of their constituents. The important subject of the Registration of Parlia mentary Electors was not overlooked even during the anxieties of a contested election, which was no sooner ter minated than several members of the Society adopted prompt and energetic measures to support a multitude of electors in the Revising Barristers' Courts, by which means were sustained the votes of four hundred and forty Reformers. The Committee cannot omit this opportunity of urging the importance of the right, as decided at the last Re gistration for Westminster, of Lodgers to the Parlia mentary Franchise, who use a part of their premises, even an attic,kitchen, or cellar, as a shop, workshop, ware-house, store-room, or counting-house, if worth 4s. weekly, or 101. per year. Any lodger who pays this amount of rent is also entitled to vote, if his landlord do not sleep on the premises. It is only necessary in all these cases that the lodger should require one of the Overseers to put his name on the Poor-rate book, and any payment afterwards made by him may be deducted from the rent, as the landlord will, in consequence of such claim, pay proportionably less. It was also found that many votes were lost by reason of the non-payment by she 20th of July of the Poor rate and window -tax, due on the sth of April, every elector should therefore be diligent to avoid such dis franchisement, not only of himself, but also his friends. Scot and lot voters should pay on the 31st of July all arrears of Poor-rate due on that day. The declaration of Lord John Russell against an ex tension of the Suffrage, the Ballot, and Triennial Parlia ments, caused great astonishment to thousands, who had placed confidence in the professed disposition of the present Ministers to perfect the Reform Act, according to its spirit ; such declaration was not, however unlooked for by this Society, who had particularly observed the conduct of Ministers, in opposing all measures for securing a popular controul over the people's own affairs. Here the Whigs have exhibited as great a dislike to the rights and interests of the rate-payers as the Tories have ever evinced. Ministers have demonstrated a disposition to amalgamate with the Tories rather than honestly declare for an extension of the Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and short Parliaments, which would rend er corruption, Intimidation, extravagance, and irresponsible po wer , mere matters of his tory. Ministers have shown themselves to be fit instru ments of oligarchical misrule, interested in sinecures, pen sions, extravagant expenditure, end aristocratical dominion. There is now exhibiting a dishonourable contention by two contending parties, attempting to make the people enlist into the ranks of one or other of the rival factions, whilst the true interests of this great commercial, manufacturing, and agricultural nation, are sacrificed by the contest thus created and fostered for party purposes. In consequence of the declaration thus mischievously made, the Society Convened a public meeting of the Elec tors on the 4th of teeember, when, as in former times, an unanimous vote in favour of an extension of the Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and Short Parliaments, was recorded by the people of Westminster, who are now at issue upon these subjects with the present Ministers, as they were with the Tories, previously to the passing of the R e form Bill. In order to increase the efficiency of this Society, and thereby as well to promote the Registration of persons en titled to the elective franchise, as to uphold the advocacy of the further Reforms which the Electors of Westminster have ever supported, the Committee earnestly call upon the Members to urge their friends, and all the supp or ters of good and peaceful Government, to enrol themselves among the numbers already belonging to the Westminster Reform Society. By Order of the Comraittee, W. WEST, Hon. Sec. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S - -YRSTIIIIDA r. Tll. DERRY. The Derby favourites are every day getting closer together , insomuch that at the present moment three stand at 11 to 1 each, and the fourth at only 12 to 1. Which has the call it is difficult to say, but it is clear that, if not a better, Grey Mornus is as great a favourite as either. Young Rowton is still in much favour, and some tolerably competent judges do Lot hesitate to predict that he will join the front rank Worn the month is over. Beyond a slight improvement in Quo Minus there was no other change. A very dull afternoon closed as follows 11 to 1 apt Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Momus 11 to 1 agst Mr. Armitage's Nonplus colt 11 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Cobweb colt 12 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinek's D'Egville 15 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lon 16 to 1 agst Mr. Bland's Young Rowton 18 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Early Bird 25 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Richard Roe 25 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Bamboo 35 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Bretby 40 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Quo Minus 50 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Tranby's dam colt—taken 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Bowes's Brother to Aleppo 2000 to 20 agst Mr. Tarleton's Blaise 600 to 50 each agst Grey M omus an d D'Egvillein one bet, and 250 to 200 on Dormouse agst Cracker. Tllll OAKS. 14 to 1 agst Lord Berners' filly—take 16 to 1 LATEST BETTING AT M!INCIIESTER. CHESTER TRADE rAjp. 19 to 2 agst Mr. Mostyn's Birdli'.ne—taken 10 to 1 agst General Yates's :'.,ylvan—taken 11 to I agst Mr. Robinson'', Whaler—offered 12 to 1 agst Mr. Fairlie'd Zohrab 13 to 1 agst Mr. Price's Wentworth—taken 100 to 7 agst Mr. Fowler's Mersey—taken 100 to 8 agst Mr. Cla,ike's Magieian—taken 100 to 6 agst Mr. liontdsworth's Combat 100 to 5 agst Mr. 'Barrow's Catherina—offered 100 to 5 agst Mr. Bowes's Lord Stafford—taken LIVERPOOL CRAVEN MEETING. MAY 16. The Tradesmen's Cup, value 100 sous. in specie, added to a Han dicap Stakes of 20 sous. each, h. ft., and 5 only if declared before the Ist of March. The second horse to receive 50 sous. out of the Stakes. Two miles over Aintree Course. Birdlime, aged, 9st. 71b ; Despot, aged, 9st. llb ; Jupiter, 6 yrs, Bst. 1 olb ; The Doctor, 4 yrs, Bst. 71h ; Abraham Newland, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b ; Galewood, 5 yrs, Bst. 7113 . ; Zohrab, aged, Bst. 61b ; Heron, 5 yrs, Bst. 31b ; Chit Chat, 4 yrs, Bst ; Combat, 4 yrs, 7st. 131 b ; Fusileer, 5 yrs, 7st. 101 b; Lord Stafford. 4 yrs, 7st. 101 b; Mersey, 5 yes, 7st. 71b ; Recluse, 4 yrs, 7st. 71b ; Miss Bowe, 4 yrs, 7st. 61b ; Dirrnid, 4 yrs, ist. 41b ; St. Bennett, 4 yrs, ist. 41b ; Brother to Van, 4 yrs, 7st. 21b; Parolles, 4 yrs, 7st. 21b; Calendar, 4 yrs, 7st. Ilb ; Argante, 4 yrs, 6st. 91b. SWITZERLAND. (From the Heketie of Jan. 23.) An attempt to set the theatre of Zurich on fire in file night of the 17th was fortunately prevented by the polic. , and the suspected incendiaries handed over to the triburwls. Tie' number of travellers inscribed in 1437 at the Post-office at Zurich amounted to 43,887, or 4,039 more than in 1886. The movement of the population of the canton of Solcure offered last year the following results :—The number of births was 1,901, and that of deaths 1,340; the former exceeding the latter by 561. 103 infants died the day of their birth, 101 during the first month, and 188 in the first year. 176 persons died between the age of 60 and 70, 165 between 70 and 80, and 58 at 80 and above that age. The births in the Cantor, of Lucerne during 1836 amounted to 3,928, of whom 2,036 were males and 1,892 females. la this number were 241 natural children, 80 twins, and 6 treble partnritions. The deaths amounted to 2,683, of whom 1,3 80 were males and 1,3`,)11 k in A les; t h e i ncrease i n the opulation p was consequeriay 1,245 souls. 1,127 c hild ren died befor their fir'.; communion. The numb er o f i n di v id ua l s who live° between 60 and 80 was 630 ; to between 80 and 90, 1 19 .; and to betw een 90 an d 100, 9. 775 marriages took place la that year. Last year the tax on fortunes in the canton of Zurich pro duced 229,8071 ., t h at on tra d es 36,910 f., and that on inn. 106,205 f .: i n a ll . 372 , 922 f. Th e rece i pts of the canton 0.1 Geneva exce e d e d th e expen dit ure i n 1836 b y a sum o f 650, 083 florins.